A CANDLE LOSES NOTHING...

“A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.”

This is what she’d always say.

“What is a candle for?” she’d ask,

“if not to help to light one’s way.”

 

To me, she was like a candle…

always wiling to lend a helping hand…

to share her light with others…

to help brighten up the land.

 

I heard her say it often…

yet she never once explained…

It’s not about what the candle loses…

it’s about what the candle gains. 

 

I do not know the exact number 

of years she has been gone…

But she lit so many candles while alive

her light shines on…and on.

 

Perhaps the beauty of a candle…

lies in its ability to mystify…

for when it lights another candle

 

its light will never die.

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Her light will never die - allets -